Wonder By R J Palacio Essay
R.J Palacio’s novel “Wonder” is a story that follows the adventure of the young character August Pullman, who possesses the rare syndrome “mandibulofacialdysostosis.” The story’s main moral is to accept people’s differences. The heart-warming story “Wonder” is written in first-person view. Although, just like the story’s protagonist, “Wonder” is different because it is written from different character’s perspectives throughout the story who tell us more about August. The perspectives of Jack, Via and August will be discussed in this essay.
The author includes the perspective of Jack. He is August’s best friend until he betrays him in the Chapter the Bleeding Scream. On page 77, the author wrote: “He put his fingers on the cheeks and eyes …show more content…
From her viewpoint, the reader learnt further about August’s appearance. This is significant because she knows him and understands him better than any other character in the story. On page 88 in the chapter “August through the peephole”, the author writes, “His eyes are about an inch below where they should be on his face, almost halfway down his cheeks. They slant downward at an extreme angle, almost like diagonal slits that someone cut into his face, and the left one is noticeably lower than the right one. They bulge outward because his eye cavities are too shallow to accommodate them. The top eyelids are always halfway closed, like he’s on the verge of sleeping. The lower eyelids sag so much they almost look like a piece of invisible string is pulling them downward: you can see the red part on the inside, like they’re almost inside out. He doesn’t have eyebrows or eyelashes. His nose is disproportionally big for his face, and kind of fleshy. His head is pinched in on the sides where the ears should be, like someone used giant pliers and crushed the middle part of his face. He doesn’t have cheekbones. There are deep creases running down both sides of his nose to his mouth, which gives him a waxy appearance. Sometimes people assume he’s been burned in a fire.” By building a picture through her descriptions, Via lets the reader get a better understanding of Auggie’s Appearance. The author’s purpose in
The author includes the perspective of Jack. He is August’s best friend until he betrays him in the Chapter the Bleeding Scream. On page 77, the author wrote: “He put his fingers on the cheeks and eyes …show more content…
From her viewpoint, the reader learnt further about August’s appearance. This is significant because she knows him and understands him better than any other character in the story. On page 88 in the chapter “August through the peephole”, the author writes, “His eyes are about an inch below where they should be on his face, almost halfway down his cheeks. They slant downward at an extreme angle, almost like diagonal slits that someone cut into his face, and the left one is noticeably lower than the right one. They bulge outward because his eye cavities are too shallow to accommodate them. The top eyelids are always halfway closed, like he’s on the verge of sleeping. The lower eyelids sag so much they almost look like a piece of invisible string is pulling them downward: you can see the red part on the inside, like they’re almost inside out. He doesn’t have eyebrows or eyelashes. His nose is disproportionally big for his face, and kind of fleshy. His head is pinched in on the sides where the ears should be, like someone used giant pliers and crushed the middle part of his face. He doesn’t have cheekbones. There are deep creases running down both sides of his nose to his mouth, which gives him a waxy appearance. Sometimes people assume he’s been burned in a fire.” By building a picture through her descriptions, Via lets the reader get a better understanding of Auggie’s Appearance. The author’s purpose in